CBS This Morning is shaking up its cast of co-hosts with the addition of NFL analyst Nate Burleson. As the show moves to its new studio in Times Square next month, they’ll do so with Burleson joining current co-hosts Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil.

Burleson made the announcement this morning on NFL Network. The 39-year-old football analyst is expected to replace CBS News veteran Anthony Mason at the morning show’s table, who becomes a culture correspondent for the network and its digital platforms. Mason’s new role will include appearances on CBS This Morning.

Burleson is a popular studio analyst on NFL Today on CBS. He's also served as co-host of NFL Network’s Good Morning Football since 2016 and a New York correspondent for Extra. He leaves a void to fill on Extra and Good Morning Football. Although Burleson will leave Good Morning Football as a daily host, he will remain as a contributor to NFL Network.

“I plan to bring the same type of energy, passion and knowledge to the morning show,” Burleson said. “I never took it lightly that people were waking up and turning the TV on to watch us. It still blows me away this day. So going over to CBS This Morning, I’m going to be informative, I’m going to be passionate. I’m going to learn while I’m teaching, and that’s what’s exciting.”

Burleson, a former NFL wide receiver with a more than decade long career in pro football, joins Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan as one of the few athletes to make the transition from sports to news.

It's a big move, and his on-air announcement/farewell was pretty good, too.

CNN’s Brian Stelter continued to defend CNN’s handling of Chris Cuomo’s counsel to — and coverage of — his brother Governor Andrew Cuomo during an appearance on CBS’ The Late Show Tuesday evening.

The Reliable Sources host offered a nuanced defense of what he called an “awkward” and “complicated” situation regarding his employer to host Stephen Colbert, but that seems a far more generous critique and certainly one he would not give to other cable outlets if they were in a similar situation.

Colbert grilled the media reporter on Cuomo, and on CNN’s involvement in the story. Colbert asked if reports of Chris’s ongoing counsel to his brother have created any conflict over at CNN.

“Behind closed doors, are people mad at him?” Colbert asked.

Stelter confirmed that “some people are mad at him,” and told Colbert that he has a source who says Chris was on the phone with his brother this week.

“Is your source Chris Cuomo?” Colbert asked, to which Stelter replied “no,” adding with a completely straight face “you gotta have boundaries, you got to draw lines.”

“Why? He doesn’t,” Colbert shot back congenially but pointedly, calling out the shifting standards. The jokey back and forth drew laughter from the studio audience, but the situational shifting of boundaries for Chris Cuomo, and journalists at CNN, isn’t really a laughing matter. Read more from Colby Hall.

Other pundits and media folks weighed in on Stelter's late night appearance, too. The reviews were... not good.